Russia clearly wanted to pivot to work with Sharaa. It likely extended feelers long ago, recognizing HTS as a potential ...

A US-backed diplomatic push is trying to end months of Israeli attacks on Syria with a bilateral security pact. But ...

Syrians are voting indirectly, and President Ahmed al-Shara is appointing a third of the lawmakers. Still, some see this as a ...

In December 2004, Jordan’s King Abdullah first warned the world of the emergence of a Sh’ia crescent that could destabilize ...

Gaza’s future hangs in the balance. But while a fragile ceasefire holds, it looks like Israel has lost influence over the ...

Iran has built parallel military infrastructure across Syria and Iraq over decades, creating a shadow empire that security ...

Trump celebrated the apparent destruction of Iran's nuclear program by the U.S. and Israel, and urged Tehran to make peace.

Nearly a year after the fall of the Assad regime, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa discusses a fast-changing Middle East and ...

Lebanon and Syria announced Friday the opening of a new chapter in their relations nearly 10 months after the ouster of ...

Donald Trump doesn't start wars, but in ending Hamas's reign of terror in Gaza, he's showing how to prevent them from ever beginning at all.

It’s rare in peace negotiations for one party to be literally given an ultimatum to sign a deal. That, precisely, was what happened – Trump all but put a gun to the head of Hamas. And unlike Hamas, ...

Russia is mediating between Iran and Israel while Donald Trump tries to remake the Middle East with the US-backed Gaza peace ...